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This is actually a pretty common side effect of chronic mdma use — I went through this a bit in my mid 20s. And I had a friend go on a few month bender after burning man who was telling me he could read minds and was living inside a simulation. Not in a theoretical, isn’t it fun to think about way, but in a “I can control reality with my thoughts” kind of way. Definitely not a pleasant feeling.

Seems like somehow the serotonin system is responsible for maintaining your belief in reality and free will.

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I think DP/DR is the opposite... "i.e. I can't control reality at all, or even myself or my choices"

Happens much more with other psychedelics. In my experience, MDMA produces the least bit of a "psychedelic hangover", other than feeling depressed.

Try doing it every week for a year.

The bodies of knowledge and practical tools (meditation/breathing/etc) from the great spiritual traditions over many thousands of years come to exactly this conclusion: your consciousness DOES create your reality. "Control" of reality is a different beast, you have to ascend to very high levels to achieve that, but it's 100% possible and happens all around us.

I think you have it a bit backwards. You perceive reality through your consciousness. So if your consciousness were to interject a filter of its own choosing, your subjective reality would be affected. However, this has no bearing on objective reality. You can't will bad things to not happen, but you can choose to perceive them as less bad.

It's like writing a SQL query "SELECT name, MIN(51, objectiveScore) as subjectiveScore FROM TestResults" and then say "hey look, no one failed!". The data in the table is still going to have any sub-50 scores it originally did, you've just turned a blind eye to them.

Maybe, or maybe we exist within a realm that is more like a video game, where each frame is generated based on the prior state of the game plus the inputs (Thought) from every character in the game? This is what people mean when they say "thoughts are things" or talk about "conscious creation".

Ultimately the topic of Awareness or Consciousness transcends rationality, so the only way to know what the hell I'm talking about is to try and walk the Path yourself. :)

source? reference?

Any of these will get you started. These are the Amazon searches for "manifestation" and "law of attraction".

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3...

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3...

If you really want to go off the deep-end you can research Yogic Siddhis.

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